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Item University-town: An analysis of the coping mechanisms of the UPV-generated stakeholders to the effect of academic calendar shiftBerdugo, John Paul F.; Igpuara, Luvielyn N. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2015-06)The University of the Philippines in the Visayas-Miagao (UPV Miagao) occupies a large part of the municipality of Miagao’s land area. Its population of students, teachers, and staff also comprise a big chunk of the town’s total population. The university has also assumed an important economic role in Miagao by generating jobs for the locals and providing additional tax income to the local government. The university and the municipal government of Miagao have developed ties and communication, which has become a vital element of this town-gown relationship. To strengthen the bond, activities like the UPV-Miagao Friendship Day is even celebrated. However, when the university shifted its academic calendar for the school year 2014-2015, creating a four month-break and affecting the UPV-generated stakeholders, no formal communication was exchanged between the two parties. Using the university-community framework by Martin (2002), the research will start by analyzing the major stakeholders of the university. In reference to the academic calendar shift, this study will analyze the effect of such shift on the tricycle drivers, boarding house owners, business owners, laundry service providers and the municipal government. The study will also examine their coping mechanism to the said change. The paper will employ survey, interviews, focus group discussions and field note observations to gather all necessary data.Item Coping mechanisms of family members with autistic childrenAbello, Mildren M.; Panes, Fritzie M. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2002-04)This study aims to uncover the coping mechanisms of family members with autistic children. All five families are from Iloilo City. The study also sought to find out if and how the autistic child affects family cohesiveness. Ways of Coping Scale adopted from Folkman and Lazarus was utilized to determine the specific coping mechanism each family member is using. In-depth interview with the respondents was also conducted to come-up with a more detailed description of coping mechanism. The findings of the study show that the most mothers, sisters and the father predominantly use seeking meaning, an emotion-focused coping which is an attempt to discover new faith or what is important in life. On the other hand each brother uses different coping mechanisms in dealing with having an autistic member in the family. Results also show that having an autistic child makes the family more cohesive.
